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On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:46 +0000, Alan wrote:
> > > into one in drivers/ide but really want splitting for libata with some
> > > kind of libata-pmac owning the shared stuff
> > 
> > You meand driver/ide/ppc/pmac.c ?
> 
> Yes
> 
> > moving them out of the macio_asic to a PCI device at one point, so yes,
> > maybe you are right, I should move the DMA bits to some "common" file
> > and split the various implementations.
> 
> I suspect it is worth doing when moving to libata at least, even if not
> for the older driver.

Yup. I don't when I'll have time to "libataify" it though. I need to
look into the best way of handling hotplug with the mediabay for that.
The current hacks are only really suitable for drivers/ide

Ben.